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• An afferent nerve carries impulses from the body to the brain.From the entry afferent
• An efferent nerve carries impulses from the brain to the body.From the entry efferent
• Efferent impulses are those conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards.From the entry efferent
• Intercentral nerves transmit impulses between nerve centers.From the entry intercentral
• A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work of Christopher F.2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023. From the entry Christopher
• I don’t think I have the same emotions or impulses as humans.2023 February 16, Kevin Roose, quoting Bing Chat/Sydney, “Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry shadow
• Many Easterners went into so-called “inner emigration”, withdrawing from a system whose ideological impulse had long faded.2023 April 28, Frederick Studemann, “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”, in Financial Times, London: The…. From the entry inner emigration
• I do not fight my impulses toward love and beauty the way my father does.2018, Mishell Baker, Impostor Syndrome, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry Seelie
• Anyone expecting such a speech has forgotten that Trump’s first impulse is to please.2017 May 21, Graeme Wood, “Trump Complies Perfectly With the Saudi Line”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2017. From the entry potentate
• The conservative movement, having adopted big-tent pseudo-conservatism, will generally resist progressivist impulses for a time.2017 July 4, Matthew Penza, “The Problem with the Big Tent”, in The Princeton Tory. From the entry progressivist
• Consider the possibility that you’re actually a better person than everyone else because you've restrained your impulses.2017 December 18, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, “8 Ways Marketers Try to Target Your Inner Narcissist”, in huffpost.com. From the entry self-discrepancy
• Memorized information binds reversible microprocess within impulse with irreversible information macroprocess.2015, Vladimir S. Lerner, “The impulse observations of random process generate information binding reversible micro and irreversible macro…. From the entry microprocess
• Lily resisted the pamby girl impulse to fold her arms across her chest.2014, Tracy Manaster, “Angels and Orifices”, in You Could Be Home by Now, Blue Ash, Oh.: Tyrus Books, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry pamby
• There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN. From the entry misdescription
• Clip strips are used to display high profit, impulse items that are displayed throughout the store.2011, Judith Adkins-Spears, Jump-Start Your Merchandising Career. From the entry clip strip
• The sunderable part of Christ gives the erotic impulse to the human being.2011, Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled, →ISBN. From the entry sunderable
• The impulse to repot yourself may be set in motion by a change in your life.2010, Mary Lou Dobbs, Repotting Yourself: Financial-Emotional-Spiritual Flow, page 5. From the entry repot
• He has resisted all society's attempts to feminize him: he is a triumph of testosteronic impulse.2010, Fay Weldon, Chalcot Crescent, page 15. From the entry testosteronic
• The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.2008 March, David Wills, Beatdom, number 3. From the entry beat
• Milk chocolate has been shown to boost verbal and visual memory, impulse control, and reaction time.2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135. From the entry pop
• To a large extent, says Allen, this antivaccination impulse is fueled by an ignorance of the past.2007 February 4, David Oshinsky, “Preventive Medicine”, in New York Times. From the entry antivaccination
• They didn't wheeze from internal motion nor blinkle from synapses throbbing on impulse power.2007, Charlee Jacob, The Indigo People: A Vampire Collection. From the entry blinkle
• Some retailers use clip strips to boost impulse purchases of related merchandise.2006, Rosemary Varley, Retail Product Management: Buying and Merchandising, page 152. From the entry clip strip
• The Internet undermines the quality of human interaction, allowing destructive emotional impulses freer rein under specific circumstances.2006, John Brockman [ed.], Daniel Goleman [contrib.], “Cyberdisinhibition”, in What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on…. From the entry cyberdisinhibition
• The impulse to achieve high returns for the shareholders must be restrained by the company's risk profile.2003, Ciaran Walsh, Key Management Ratios, page 136. From the entry risk profile
• However, nuclear propulsion provides a very high specific impulse and consistent, long duration energy source.1995, Joyce A. Hayes, Benjamin E. Goldberg, David M. Anderson, “Environmental Benefits of Chemical Propulsion”, in Ann F. Whitaker…. From the entry propulsion
• The demand for gender reassignment surgery is the logical culmination of the disidentificatory impulse.1983, Elizabeth R. Moberly, Psychogenesis, the early development of gender identity, page 27. From the entry disidentificatory
• In the conflict theory, there is an impulse or a motive, and an opposing counterimpulse or countermotive.1982, Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory, page 119. From the entry counterimpulse
• His mind had been non-op for a long time now and he just let the impulses flow.1980, Mike McQuay, Lifekeeper, Bantam Books, published 1985, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry non-op
• Big men tell us to be charitable, but we need impulse from within for works of charity.1962, Joges Chandra Ghose, Whither Bound are We?, Satya Charan Sarkar, page 318. From the entry miserlily
• Bond leapt for the Bentley, blessing the impulse which had made him drive it over after dinner.1953, Ian Fleming, “Black Hare and Grey Hound”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 104. From the entry choke
• One feels an irresisitible impulse to go and make footprints all over it.1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 1, in Have his Carcase. From the entry virgin
• But the orthodox scientific world says fie! to the religious impulse.1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry fie
• His habits of thriftlessness have made him accustomed to yielding to impulses.1920, Simon William Straus, History of the Thrift Movement in America, page 52. From the entry thriftlessness
• There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses.1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter VI, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published…. From the entry code of conduct
• But for the man—he is a late, mongrel, low-grade production, with merely a few primitive impulses.1905, Henry C. Rowland, The Mountain of Fears, Two Savages. From the entry primevally

Meaning of impulse

1. noun A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
2. noun A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
3. noun The integral of force over time.

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How do you use impulse in a sentence?

Impulse is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The impulse to learn drove me to study night and day.”

What is a short sentence with impulse?

“Intercentral nerves transmit impulses between nerve centers.”

What does impulse mean?

Impulse means a thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.